My first week was short, considering I have Tuesdays and Fridays off this fall. But my first day, last Wednesday, was quite fun indeed, as you may recall. Despite the fact I have no classes on Tuesday and Friday, I do still work all day, on each, so there's little solace in that fact. On my scale of sort of long to ridiculously long days, my Mondays (10AM to 7PM) and Wednesdays (8AM to 8PM) aim to land right in the range of the annoyingly long variety.
Now we can't forget about Thursdays, in which I work my regular eight hours (7.5 if you want to be 'like that') and follow it up with a three hour lecture from 7-10PM.
But there's still hope! Thursdays I get to bask in the glory of that which is: sleeping on a floor.
Yup, a floor. A very comfortable floor, thank you very much, so set your glaring envy aside and get your own. I've been lucky enough to get loaned said floor on Thursday evenings, if necessary, by a few very classy individuals. They also loaned me an air mattress, that pretty much deflates until you're laying on the floor. So for all intents and purposes, I sleep on a floor.
It also gives me a chance to unwind after back-to-back long days, watch a couple of movies and almost fall asleep wearing my headphones while listening to Baroness at 1:30AM, because I'm a crazy person who stays up all night. Good times indeed.On a side note, I got to re-watch Crash this past Thursday - while on the aforementioned floor. It's been a while since I last saw it and it remains a real triumph of cinematography and storytelling. The television series that was inspired by it - and is produced by the film's director Paul Haggis - is still currently hanging in the balance, as far as a third season is concerned. Mainly following the death of Dennis hopper, who was one of the main 'protagonists' of the series.
Here's to a week of long days, lots of potential swearing in German and sleeping on floors.
Keep it classy Bytown - derp, Ottawa.
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